Word: sky
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Novae are stars which, in making some obscure internal adjustment, flare up suddenly from sub-visibility, shine brilliantly for days, weeks or months, subside at last into their former faintness. Conspicuous as any stars in the sky at the peak of their display, they are spectacular but not rare, for nearly 40 have been observed since 1900. But the universe has superlatives. Once in a while a super-nova emerges grandiosely on the cosmic stage...
Incandescent streaks in the night sky which scientists call meteors are caused by atmospheric friction against bits of matter, some as small as peas, falling from outer space. It has been night for two and a half months at Little America, base camp of the second Byrd Antarctic Expedition, and sometimes the air is extraordinarily clear. At such favorable times Dr. Thomas Charles Poulter, on leave from Iowa Wesleyan College, has had a crew of men recording meteors. Four men sit hour after hour inside a glass dome mounted in the roof of a shack. When one spies a falling...
...Dickey informed him that Averill had struck out in the first. The following year the Yankees were playing a crucial game against Washington; there were two men out and three on base; suddenly his teammates saw Gomez run out in front of the dugout and pointed wildly at the sky; he had spied an airplane and wanted them...
...broadcasting and cinema concerns. Unsued, however, were the members of the White House Portico Quartet. "An Arizona Home," William Goodwin says, goes this way: O give me a home where the buffaloes roam, Where the deer and the antelopes play. There seldom is heard a discouraging word, And the sky is not cloudy all day. The most popular version of "Home on the Range": Oh give me a home where the buffalo roam, Where the deer and the antelope play. There seldom is heard a discouraging word, And the skies are not cloudy...
DUEL-Ronald Fangen-Viking ($2.50). When Feodor Dostoevsky died 53 years ago. a light went out of literature's night sky that appears only once in a blue moon. Last week U. S. readers were rubbing amazed eyes, asking themselves if the moon were not once again blue. For Duel, Norwegian Author Ronald Fangen's first, book to be brought out in the U. S.. shone with an unmistakably Dostoevskian light. Like his great prototype. Author Fangen is a foreigner but his translated words need no visa. The world he writes about is the same world...